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Southeast Asia: Foreign investments resilient despite global economic uncertainties

...Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Surge in foreign investments Asean has seen a significant surge in FDI inflows over the past decade. Annual inflows averaged US$1...

18 Oct 2024

...Malaysia-based conservation scientist Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, citing his own experience of helping authorities set up Kenyir State Park in Malaysia through his NGO, Rimba. “Federally managed prote...

11 Sep 2024

...Malaysia and Singapore, drew flak for reporting a negative figure for its Scope 3 emissions, by including avoided emissions from recycling. But he noted that both cases he raised were not whistleblowe...

26 May 2025

...Malaysian wildlife veterinarian Zainal Zainuddin has been quietly developing the world’s largest collection of living fig trees. Spread over three one-hectare sites in Sabah, northern Malaysian Borneo...

22 Jan 2024

44th and 45th Asean summits and related summits in Lao PDR

...Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand have become partner countries of BRICS, which analysts say can form a critical mineral coalition to counter the MSP, leading to further stratification of glob...

25 Nov 2024

Asean, ESCAP launch regional investment plan to boost sustainable FDI

...Malaysia will host the Asean Investment Forum 2025, building on the momentum generated in Lao PDR. ESCAP will continue to support Asean in the implementation of the Regional Investment Promotion Actio...

8 Oct 2024

...Malaysia. LNG is almost entirely made up of methane gas. “Coal is not called ‘natural’ rock. It’s a fossil fuel. Likewise, there is no such thing as ‘natural’ gas. It’s methane, and it’s a fossil fuel...

14 May 2024

...Malaysia? If you look at Malaysia’s breakdown of carbon emissions reported in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) biennial report, you can see transportation makes up ...

24 Oct 2023

Innovation and inclusion drive impactful, record year for IFC in Asia Pacific

...Malaysia, as well as the first fund to combine public, private and philanthropic capital with a specialised focus on clean-energy investments in Southeast Asia. IFC provided financing and adviso...

18 Nov 2024

...Malaysia over August and September before culminating in the Singapore summit on 27th and 28th September 2023, held alongside the UN General Assembly Week and in the run up to the COP28 UNFCCC climate...

3 May 2024

...Malaysia could be a country to watch – it lifted a federal ban on renewable power exports last year, and has been working on domestic regulations to facilitate such trading. The state of Sarawak in Ea...

9 Jan 2024

A small-scale miner in Bicol, Philippines

...Malaysia, the past chair, to have a negotiating bloc because they want to highlight a coordinated presence of Asean in the UNFCCC negotiations. Like them, we feel there will be a stronger voice if th...

20 Feb 2026

...Malaysia, namely Bank Negara Malaysia’s Climate Change and Principle-based Taxonomy, published in 2021, as well as the Securities Commission Malaysia’s Sustainable and Responsible Investment Taxonomy,...

7 Nov 2023

Minister Grace Fu speaking at Ecosperity 2024

...Malaysia. Fu spoke against fossil fuel subsidies, which she said are difficult to remove "in an election year", where governments are thinking more about political realities. 2024 has been billed so, ...

15 Apr 2024

...Malaysia.” The ministry also stated that the bill will help Malaysia to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement – which seeks to facilitate countries’ efforts to keep global warming to below 2C...

18 Aug 2023

Air pollution spoils the view from a high-rise building in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

...Malaysia had planned to introduce a cross-territory haze bill in 2019, but this was shelved after a change in government. Malaysia's environment minister said in June that plans for a transboundary ha...

3 Oct 2023

Pioneering Asia’s built environment future with technology, talent and sustainability at IBEW and BEX Asia 2025

...Malaysia—a demonstration of our ability to meet hyperscale demands while safeguarding resources for generations to come. By combining our expertise with BCA International, we can accelerate our ...

7 Sep 2025

...Malaysia, stand out for instituting standardised and transparent renewable energy auctions. These initiatives have bolstered investor confidence through increased transparency and policy consistency, ...

28 Mar 2024

...Malaysia, told Eco-Business. His remarks come two months after Malaysia lifted its export ban on renewable energy, a move that was welcomed by neighbouring Singapore. At the same time, the government ...

18 Jul 2023

...Malaysia whose father is non-Indigenous. “I could feel my insecurities. My father even belittled me when I was a child that I was only an Indigenous woman.” Ways forward In Indonesia, Maria says not a...

30 Jul 2025

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